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When I got my new dedicated server setup with Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS, I wanted to use it both for website hosting and multiple users remote desktop work.
It took me some time to arrange all the steps to have the above completed, and as far as the hosting part was pretty easy, the multiple Ubuntu users desktop setup needed some jugs of coffee before start working as I wanted it.

So, I presume you have logged in to your server with some user already, so we will stat with updating the system:

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sudo apt-getupdate

Next, as I want all Gnome desktop features, will install it completely with:

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sudo apt-getinstall ubuntu-desktop

Unity looks fancy, but I want the old Gnome panel, and I do not need “compiz”, so:

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sudo apt-getremove compix unity

sudo apt-getinstall gnome-panel

Next what we need is a VNC server.

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sudo apt-getinstall vnc4server

The tricky part here is that you have to create several configuration files for the Ubuntu Remote Desktop user. This is really time consuming if you have to read all the settings and creating the files by yourself.

It is more easy to start the VNC server which will create the files automatically:

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vnc4server:2

You will be asked for a password so enter it, and then kill the server as we have to make some configuration changes:

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vnc4server-kill:2

Edit the xstartup configuration file:

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vi.vnc/xstartup

And make it looks like this:

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#!/bin/sh

[-x/etc/vnc/xstartup]&&exec/etc/vnc/xstartup

[-r$HOME/.Xresources]&&xrdb$HOME/.Xresources

xsetroot-solid grey

vncconfig-iconic&

x-window-manager&

gnome-panel&

gnome-session&

Now you can start the vnc server with this:

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vnc4server:2-geometry1024x768-depth24

Certainly you can change the settings if you want different Remote Desktop geometry.

Now use your preferred VNC client – http://remmina.sourceforge.net/ (Linux) and http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php (Windows) are my suggestions – and connect to the Ubuntu Remote Desktop server using x.x.x.x:2 as (:2) is the number of display used to run for the client. If you have more than one running you should use different number at the end.

As I saying different desktops, I am going to add another user to my Ubuntu Remote Desktop server.
For this I will need to repeat the above steps for creating (and starting) the VNC profile for each user. This one is not yet automatically implemented, but it is not a big deal.
First I will add another user:

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sudo adduser newuser

Complete the several steps for creating the user which is including creating the password and user personal information.
(A little trick when you want to add user with administrative privileges is to type the command as : adduser admin
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Then start the VNC server once to create the VNC password:

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sudo su newuser vnc4server:3

sudo su newuser vnc4server-kill:3

Open VNC startup file for the ‘newuser’

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sudo vi/home/newuser/.vnc/xstartup

And paste the same configuration as for the first user:

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#!/bin/sh

[-x/etc/vnc/xstartup]&&exec/etc/vnc/xstartup

[-r$HOME/.Xresources]&&xrdb$HOME/.Xresources

xsetroot-solid grey

vncconfig-iconic&

x-window-manager&

gnome-panel&

gnome-session&

Save the file and start the service

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sudo su newuser vnc4server:3-geometry1024x768-depth24

Now using VNC client you can connect to the new user Desktop as going to x.x.x.x:3 address.

The next step is to automate a little bit the start-up precess for these Ubuntu Remote Desktop users. Otherwise you have to start vnc4server for each user when the server is rebooted.

So, switch to root (it is just more easier) and then create vncserver folder and create file as vncservers.conf:

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sudo su-

mkdir-p/etc/vncserver

vi/etc/vncserver/vncservers.conf

Inside put the following massive:

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VNCSERVERS="2:user 3:newuser"

VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 1024x768 -depth 24"

VNCSERVERARGS[3]="-geometry 1024x768 -depth 24"

Where ‘user’ is the main user you are dealing with (the one we configured VNC for initially) and ‘newuser’ which is the second user are we have created. If you have more users created and the above steps for settings passwords and vnc4srver start-up completed, add more lines accordingly wit (:4),(:5) etc. screens.

This will be basic tutorial about how to set scheduled task in Windows 2008.

First go to the Administrative Tools – Task Schedule.

Once opened, you will see the Task Scheduler window. If it is not something special, you can just create basic task on your Windows 2008. Just click on the link located at right filed under actions.

The very first step will be to set scheduled task description :

The next one will be to choose scheduled task trigger :

Windows 2008 Task Scheduler has the following trigger options you can choose from: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, One time, When the computer starts, When I log on, When a specific event is logged. All of them are self-explainable so pick the one you need. In my case the scheduled task will be on daily basis.

Choose the time-frame you want the task to be executed, and then click Next for the scheduled task action:

I will start simple script which will restart IIS using “iisreset” command.Use the browse button to locate the application or the script you want to be scheduled.

The next will be to finish the task setup.

Here you will see the task summary, and will add the task to the Windows 2008 task schedule .

It is really easy to generate SSL key and CSR using OpenSSL, and the next several steps will guide you trough the process.

If you are on Linux server, OpenSSL can be downloaded from here: OpenSSL source – or you can use your package management software like YUM install or apt-get. For Windows users, you can use: Win32OpenSSL.

The above command will generate SSL key using ‘-rand’ option with few big files for sources and 2048 encryption. The reason of using some big files with ‘-rand’ option is because there are no absolute random generation with computers – but that is different story. Recently the minimum allowed encryption by the SSL issuers is 2048 bits so make sure you will generate your key with this number or with 4096 bit SSL key.

There is another command which can be used :

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openssl genrsa-des3-out www.freetutorialssubmit.com.key2048

After executing it, the output will be:

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Generating RSA private key,2048bit longmodulus

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eis65537(0x10001)

Enter pass phrase forwww.freetutorialssubmit.com.key:

Verifying-Enter pass phrase forwww.freetutorialssubmit.com.key:

When you generate SSL key with this command will require password, which is good when the key is transported, but once set on a Web Server it will ask for a password every time it is restarted. If you have chosen this method, the next command will remove the SSL key password.

You are about tobe asked toenter information that will be incorporated

into your certificate request.

Whatyou are about toenter iswhatiscalledaDistinguished Name oraDN.

There are quiteafew fields but you can leave some blank

Forsome fields there will beadefaultvalue,

Ifyou enter'.',the field will be left blank.

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Country Name(2letter code)[AU]:US

State orProvince Name(full name)[Some-State]:California

Locality Name(eg,city)[]:San Diego

Organization Name(eg,company)[Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Freetuts Ltd.

Organizational Unit Name(eg,section)[]:Security

Common Name(eg,YOUR name)[]:www.freetutorialssubmit.com

Email Address[]:admin@freetutorialssubmit.com

Please enter the following'extra'attributes

tobe sent with your certificate request

Achallenge password[]:

An optional company name[]:

When you are ready with the CSR information, and you open the CSR file, it should look similar to this:

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-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

MIIC+zCCAeMCAQAwgbUxCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVTMRMwEQYDVQQIEwpDYWxpZm9ybmlh

MRIwEAYDVQQHEwlTYW4gRGllZ28xFjAUBgNVBAoTDUZyZWVUdXRzIEx0ZC4xETAP

BgNVBAsTCFNlY3VyaXR5MSQwIgYDVQQDExt3d3cuZnJlZXR1dG9yaWFsc3N1Ym1p

dC5jb20xLDAqBgkqhkiG9w0BCQEWHWFkbWluQGZyZWV0dXRvcmlhbHNzdWJtaXQu

Y29tMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAxw/rAvWL8H2T+y9y

sEZ+dimX0tcnmOLpsKiw+y8UxJL7xmijtK/mQuXmlKsAKX28V3NdgWf0EDGkax3T

gbAArt8KouynTZs1cP/0hC1wmyC7Y285NXwSbi/RNZG1thwUg5m0JFrwExPtC6yF

z5dPUb/RpwqZ5gRlPSfdK8vC3DVgBwcRB2cr7TEy9G98UQEg1ZphHb+8BN8huhy5

h4CeHvGtqAdRe9u7o8kP1ZJ2sTsfQjW8WDQp+DvZXMC20rv+TmE2OsR3qsc9ytrp

cZEJsMaXeInhSj64jvI5aS9B4jNnEHK2Km/wGqqZ9sbg3a6YQaLY+oa+04t40uZB

+/AEAwIDAQABoAAwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQADggEBAA+j9DGYVSPthNn/zwy43kFv

bcXborvJXbU0AxJwFlHkMnHd5kCzX7lxWnca7KRTbyYsWgE8gPyTgdajPp7iCdpa

L5lIciGtlnhOo6AXvKG8SV92En37YBY5geNDRYFbyQuLkC2lXKdTuHUoxck4QKPV

57nHQzckCc2bma8sbC0evo2upxt2XK3yGWB+PQHF1GlkXg1emx/Xmen/7DMoudbR

tcBY1EwCqRfoYT3dieYII9+4NwmZ3OCPHDNx68k8jBatY5EWIMxMUCZv7hRwUPoX

WFC7+kIAheXb/eul6kbIW0olTblXH+jPGUPwh2MSIEXKZTubpQLeZP/fWTuiWao=

-----ENDCERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

Now provide the CSR to a certificate issuer and wait for the SSL approval message.

Most SSL issuers have service that relies upon the Subscriber or the Subscriber’s authorized administrator to approve all certificate requests for all hosts in the domain. It is important that you will select a correct authorized administrator email. By selecting an authorized administrator, you warrant to the certificate issuer that the individual is authorized to approve the request. The request for SSL server certificate will not be processed beyond this point if you select an incorrect email address.
This part is important and it is a part of the SSL certificate issue process. Its purpose is to avoid someone else to have a certificate issued for your domain.

Be peppered with the following allowed e-mails:
Registered Domain Contacts – This is when the SSL issuer has successfully obtained domain contacts for this domain from the domain registrar. This will be the

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Registered Domain Admin contact

Registered Domain Tech contact

Alternate Approval Email Addresses can be used, but you must make sure that such e-mail account has been set up and is available before you provide the CSR, or the approval email will not be delivered.

Level 2 Domain Addresses as bellow are allowed:

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admin@freetutorialssubmit.com

administrator@freetutorialssubmit.com

hostmaster@freetutorialssubmit.com

root@freetutorialssubmit.com

webmaster@freetutorialssubmit.com

postmaster@freetutorialssubmit.com

Level 3 Domain Addresses as bellow are allowed:

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admin@www.freetutorialssubmit.com

administrator@www.freetutorialssubmit.com

hostmaster@www.freetutorialssubmit.com

root@www.freetutorialssubmit.com

webmaster@www.freetutorialssubmit.com

postmaster@www.freetutorialssubmit.com

Once you have received and approve the SSL certificate, it will be sent to you and you can install it on your web server.

After some search and investigation the issue appeared to be in a file called ‘file.inc’ located inside ‘includes’ folder. All the rest variables were WATCHDOG_ERROR, but there was one WATCHDOG_ERR which seams to be not declared anywhere.

This will be quick tutorial about how to convert P7B to certificate. Actually we will extract certificates from PKCS #7 file using OpenSSL.
Here I have to mention one issue which is really often met and it is with the beginning and the end of the certificate provided. It depends on the OpenSSL version, but for now if the beginning and the end of the certificate are like:
—–BEGIN PKCS #7 SIGNED DATA—-
and
—–END PKCS #7 SIGNED DATA—–
will lead to the following error when you try to extract the SSL certificates:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:644:Expecting: PKCS7 .
Let’s examine P7B certificate to see how to avoid such error.

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-----BEGIN PKCS#7 SIGNED DATA-----

MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExADALBgkqhkiG9w0BBwGggDCCBiAwggUIoAMC

AQICEDY7d91JCeFxkYLcRtsAntUwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwgboxCzAJBgNVBAYT

AlVTMRcwFQYDVQQKEw5WZXJpU2lnbiwgSW5jLjEfMB0GA1UECxMWVmVyaVNpZ24g

VHJ1c3QgTmV0d29yazE7MDkGA1UECxMyVGVybXMgb2YgdXNlIGF0IGh0dHBzOi8v

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AAOBgQATAt346IYA8lr4+CAMWYhiB87O9075u1mhmOXhON1OvGYY063rGPINyW0+

SpQgwzy6vWVUxq9EsxCtLGs+q9cHtriBY8X5Xi7lKmfOzTMMKteJVgMjH7O+6DoI

WbTsRTX3ilv/Zs9Qr8ZtV40ZeLe5otFX6h+aS6+6yY4Sfsa9/wAAMQAAAAAAAAA=

-----ENDPKCS#7 SIGNED DATA-----

Your certificate could be much longer as digits, but I put […] to shorten the listing on mine. Anyway if your certificate has the same beginning and end, you should change it to:

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-----BEGIN PKCS7-----

MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExADALBgkqhkiG9w0BBwGggDCCBiAwggUIoAMC

AQICEDY7d91JCeFxkYLcRtsAntUwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwgboxCzAJBgNVBAYT

AlVTMRcwFQYDVQQKEw5WZXJpU2lnbiwgSW5jLjEfMB0GA1UECxMWVmVyaVNpZ24g

VHJ1c3QgTmV0d29yazE7MDkGA1UECxMyVGVybXMgb2YgdXNlIGF0IGh0dHBzOi8v

d3d3LnZlcmlzaWduLmNvbS9ycGEgKGMpMDYxNDAyBgNVBAMTK1ZlcmlTaWduIENs

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WhcNMTMwOTEzMjM1OTU5WjCCAQwxEzARBgsrBgEEAYI3PAIBAxMCVVMxFzAVBgsr

BgEEAYI3PAIBAhQGTmV2YWRhMR0wGwYDVQQPExRQcml2YXRlIE9yZ2FuaXphdGlv

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L29jc3AudmVyaXNpZ24uY29tMD4GA1UdJQQ3MDUGCCsGAQUFBwMBBggrBgEFBQcD

AgYIKwYBBQUHAwMGCWCGSAGG+EIEAQYKYIZIAYb4RQEIATANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUF

AAOBgQATAt346IYA8lr4+CAMWYhiB87O9075u1mhmOXhON1OvGYY063rGPINyW0+

SpQgwzy6vWVUxq9EsxCtLGs+q9cHtriBY8X5Xi7lKmfOzTMMKteJVgMjH7O+6DoI

WbTsRTX3ilv/Zs9Qr8ZtV40ZeLe5otFX6h+aS6+6yY4Sfsa9/wAAMQAAAAAAAAA=

-----ENDPKCS7-----

I have changed:
—–BEGIN PKCS #7 SIGNED DATA—-
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—–BEGIN PKCS7—–
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—–END PKCS7—–
in order to accommodate the OpenSSL “Expecting: PKCS7”

Now we can run the OpenSSL command which will extract PKCS7 certificates from the P7B file .
Note: this command works for both Linux and Windows machines with installed OpenSSL.

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The output which prints the stored in the p7b file certificates will be similar to this one:

In this tutorial I will talk about how to disconnect SSH user from Linux remote server.

This is useful when you have stuck SSH connections or there areÂ suspicious IPs connected to the server. If your case is the second one you may kick out the hacker from the server, but even disconnected he may have setup already backdoor or application that will return theÂ connection to him. Anyway the first step will be to kill sshd processes serving other connection but yours.

Once logged in list all current users on the server using ‘w’ command – simply type:

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[root@yourserver/]#w

This will list all users on the Linux box like this:

As you can see there are several usersÂ currently logged in, and to discover which one is yours can be done comparing your IP address, what is currently doing as well as the time – for how long the users is on the server.If you are just logged in your time will be the current one on the server.

To list which user which TTY(pts) is using we have to use the Linux ‘ps’ command with extended output like this:

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[root@yourserver/]psfaux|grepsshd

The output will show which “sshd” service running for which ‘pts‘ stands:

Now I want to kick off Linux user with pts / 4 marked on the image, and for that I will use Linux ‘kill’ command.

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[root@yourserver/]kill-96702

This will send kill signal to process 6702 which is the number for the “sshd” service with pts / 4 running on the server.
After you have executed this command try the ‘w’ command to see if the user is still logged in.

I barely remember my first site and how it was created, but I still remember the filling when I saw the price for the webhosting I was searching for. Then I was a student and if I wanted to see my website live, I had to pay one third of my monthly budget. That was before more than ten years and the webhosting was pretty expensive than now.

Nowadays the hosting prices are way to low, but if you are familiar with webhosting and understand the services that some hosting companies provide – you probably know that even price of couple of bugs is too much for what you actually get. I am not going to fail into detailed discussion about hosting companies, plans etc.- so if you are at the point where you do not have much to spend on webhosting, and in the same time you want to start building websites and host them cheep you may use the method described bellow.

Certainly the main point here is that you have pretty much space, PHP and MySQL which allows you to do almost everything, and .. just one domain hosted. Here I have to say that the whole freetutorialssubmit.com website is not more than 600MB and if I decide to host it on such hosting, the rest of the 160GB space will remain unused. You may decide to use the rest of the space as a storage, but in most cases it just remain like that.

With the PHP script bellow you can host multiple domains on one hosting even it the hosting company allows only one domain to be hosted, which will allow you to use the rest of the hosting space for different websites.

Before that I have to mention that all domain you want hosted in this hosting should be set like CNAME for the main domain. The reason is that when a domain is set as a A CNAME record or Canonical Name record in the Domain Name System (DNS) – this specifies that the domain name is an alias of the other domain. This is rather simple and can be done in with the company where the domain is registered for free. (If not try GoDaddy ;)

Once a domain is set as CNAME it will do exactly the same as the first domain. Here comes my script which basically check as which domain the browser request is done and redirects to a particular folder where the according domain files are set. The script should be in the main index.php file, otherwise it will not be opened and will not redirect accordingly.

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

<title></title>

</head>

<body>

<?php

switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])

{

case"www.internal.com":

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: http://www.internal.com/index1.php");

exit(0);

break;

case"www.freetutorialssubmit.com":

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: http://www.freetutorialssubmit.com/index2.php");

exit(0);

break;

case"www.onlinehowto.net":

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: http://www.onlinehowto.net/home/");

exit(0);

break;

}

// Here the code of your main domain continues. You can also redirect if you wish

?>

</body>

</html>

Ok, it may looks confusing, but what is actually happening is when someone lands on your hosting, his browser opens the main index file. The script checks ‘HTTP_HOST’ global PHP variable which contains actually via which domain the server was reached and then redirects to its index (you can see it in the example as index2.php and index1.php ), or to a particular folder. If there is no match the visitor’s browser will stay in the same file and will continue with the main domain code.

Well that’s it … and yes, it is legal to host multiple domains on one hosting using this way!

This tutorial contains 301 redirect checker script which I have created after spending more than half an hour searching the Internet for something suitable I can use for my needs. While I was searching I found only separate web pages with fields where you can check one – two URLs or heavy applications that can be installed, and yet not covering my needs. Certainly, there were paid 301 redirect checker solutions which can be used to check 301 Permanent Redirect, but I am not sure whether it does worth to buy such. The purpose of this checker in most cases is only to see if a particular pages redirect permanent covering the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) requirements.

In my case part of the OnlineHowTo.net is moving over Free Tutorials Submit dot com, and from SEO perspective, the tutorials moved have to be with 301 redirect to their new URLs.

I decided to write it as Linux bash 301 redirect checker script because it can be run on almost any Linux machine with curl installed and easily added to the Crontab. I believe the script is rather easy to be understood and used, even by not so experienced administrators.

What the redirect script is doing is to gather the URLs you want to check from an external file (in my case: /opt/scripts/301URLs.txt ), where every URL is placed on a separate line like this:

I chose this way as most of the get-all-urls-from-domain applications provide the listing like this, but certainly you can choose (and then modify a little bit my script) different format.
Then using simple bash loop it reads every line one by one, processing it with CURL extracting the headers (curl -I option).
Every header contains information similar to:

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HTTP/1.1301MovedPermanently

Date:Thu,18Aug201117:23:57GMT

Server:Apache/2.2.3(CentOS)

Location:http://www.freetutorialssubmit.com/ftp-voyager/109

Connection:close

Content-Type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1

Once we have this information we can easily egrep for the 301 Moved Permanently part and if it exist, the 301 redirect checker script continues with the next URL. If the redirect is something different it writes down the URL into the /tmp/301report.txt file.

Finally the script checks whether the /tmp/301report.txt file exist – it will be created only if there is even one different from 301 Moved Permanently redirect – and will send it via e-mail to the address you have set in the EMAIL variable. If there are no such file, the script will end with no report.

Here is the whole script which you can freely use and modify as per your needs:

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#!/bin/bash

#The subject of the mail message - can be anything.

#For example something that triggers your e-mail client filters.

SUBJECT="301 Redirect Compromised"

#Here you must change with your e-mail address.

EMAIL="mail-to-report-to@yourdomain.com"

#Temporary file I am using to store non 301 redirected URLs.

LINKS=/tmp/301report.txt

#Here I make sure this file does not exist before processing the URLs.

rm-f/tmp/301report.txt

#All URLs which should be checked are in /opt/scripts/301URLs.txt one per line.

cat/opt/scripts/301URLs.txt|whilereadline;do

L=`curl-I-s$line|egrep'^HTTP\/1\.1 301'`

sleep5

if[-z"$L"]

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echo$line>>$LINKS

fi

done

#Check if there were non 301 redirects stored and e-mail them if any

if[-f/tmp/301report.txt]

then

mail-s"$SUBJECT""$EMAIL"<$links

fi

#EOF

To be honest, I am using a little bit modified 301 redirect checker script, which is also checking whether the redirected URL is the one I need, but it is more complicated and may confuse you if you have to modify it.
Also, more elegant solution will be if you decide to use array, but this redirect checker script fits my needs perfect.
Also I have put sleep command as if the number of the URLs is too big, it may lead to server abuse and blocking the IP you are checking the redirect from. If you do not need the script to wait 5 seconds for every URL, just remove that line.

Hope this scrip will cover your needs as well. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

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While we were on custom CMS, we missed the advantage of using many scripts and applications developed and available trough many popular publishing applications. After migrating over WordPressÂ one of the first plugins of course was a social plugin. The current theme fitted well with very good scrolling social plugin, giving ability to people visiting the website to share easily within their social networks.

Maybe you have noticed already theÂ floating social media buttons on the left side of this tutorial, but I will post a screen shoot , as in the future it could be not there because of theme change or social plugin location is designed differently.

Certainly to use it you should have WordPress as CMS or good knowledge as programmer to modify it as per your needs and website specification. I will describe how this social plugin can be installed and then how to configure it to scroll down and up when the visitors of your website scroll while browsing.

First you will need to install the plugin.Â For that you can use the WordPress admin page, or you can directly download it from here , decompress it and upload using FTP to the plug-in folder of your CMS.

Since the second method is rather old, and used rarely, I give as example the internal plugin installation from the administrative section. Once you are logged in, expand “Plugins” section, choose add new, and type the same as on the picture “Digg Digg”.

This will list a lot of options, but you should look for the social plugin written by Yong Mook Kim – usually the first result.

Second, you will have to install the plugin, and active it.Then a new menu will appear on the left side-bar in your administration section. Expand it and choose “Floating display” – this is the configuration menu of the plugin where you can enable and choose the float options.

Here you will be able to edit the display configuration deciding where the scrolling social plugin will appear. The current options are: Home, Post, Page, Category, Tag, Archive.

Next will be to choose your preferred social networks to display.

As you can see I have chosen a few, as I think more than this number will confuse the visitors, as well as these are the networks we interact mostly. To scroll social media buttons with the content, check the “Ajax Floating” check-box for the ones you like to use.

You have additional options like extra integration of e-mail and print links next to the other floating social media buttons , ability to edit the social plugin code, and certainly option to donate some to the author of this plugin.

Do not forget to save the changes – there is an option on every section, and .. enjoy your newÂ social plugin that floats !

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